Corona Devotionals

We love  the Lord.  And He calls us to love others...and we want to.   As a son or daughter of God, He imparts His Holy Spirit into us and we want to help, to serve, to lead, and to love in His Name.  God whispers efforts, initiatives, people...and we go .  And we do .  And these become our good deeds  in His Name.   And...we are (Biblically) supposed to be led, and to do these things.  Simply put, and Biblically put--- f aith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.   What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? ( 15)  If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, ( 16)  and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? ( 17)  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead .  ~James 2:14:-17  ...

No pain, no gain. No guts, no glory.   Put in the work today, and get results tomorrow. Are we talking about hitting the gym?  Lifting weights?  Running sprints or marathon miles?   No--(although) these phrases can apply to our physical disciplines, please be encouraged by the Bible that these (type) of committed phrases can also absolutely apply to our daily spiritual  disciplines to God. God is talking about His sons and daughters  enduring persecution patiently today. God is talking about us  obeying his commands today. God is talking about you and me  maintaining our faith in Jesus  today. This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently, obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus.   ~Revelation 14:12 He (God) doesn't make it sound easy, and if we are living (outloud) for the Lord, then we know that it is not easy.    We will   endure persecution if we adhere to what ...

Happy Birthday, America. So many things make me proud to live in the Nation that I do, but none more than the reason (Reason!) that our Nation was founded, established and forged: One Nation Under God . Our founders came here from across the pond with very little, and they arrived with even less...and even fewer.   But they had a desire to live free and to worship God freely , and they were determined to not just survive...but to thrive.  The freedoms that we enjoy today  are a direct result of the freedoms that they sought to establish yesterday.   We celebrate July 4th every year in the U.S.A., but much ado has been made about this  year because 2026 marks the 250th birthday of the United States of America officially being unified by the document that holds us together as a Nation, and also sets us apart from any other nation: the Declaration of Independence. Intellect, debates, review, revisions, time, and prayer  went into our Declaration...

I was happily barrelling down a two-lane country road on my way to an appointment when I came up upon a truck towing a trailer of hay bales.  It was  moving slowly.   I had been making good time, but I had to press the brakes for this truck now in front of me. As I began to slow, I looked around.  I was approaching a big farmhouse with fields of crop surrounding it.  It looked so peaceful in the early light of the day.   My slower pace gave me time to take things in, and I let my gaze float to the top of the silo that stood next to their barn.  There was a metal ring that wrapped around the top of the silo, almost like a railing around it, and on top of that silo...on top of that railing...sat a big beautiful bald eagle, peering out at the world, and me. And I was able to glimpse him because a truck full of hay pulled out in front of me and caused me to slow down long enough to take in my surroundings.  I love bald eagles.  I love ...